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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2006-10-28 16:04:04 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2006-10-28 16:04:04 (GMT)
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Fix nth() itertool recipe.
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/lib/libitertools.tex b/Doc/lib/libitertools.tex
index 20bbc8d..59fbd98 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libitertools.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libitertools.tex
@@ -474,8 +474,8 @@ def iteritems(mapping):
return izip(mapping.iterkeys(), mapping.itervalues())
def nth(iterable, n):
- "Returns the nth item"
- return list(islice(iterable, n, n+1))
+ "Returns the nth item or raise IndexError"
+ return list(islice(iterable, n, n+1))[0]
def all(seq, pred=None):
"Returns True if pred(x) is true for every element in the iterable"